Australia's Disability Discrimination Act is decades old, with reform "well overdue". Removing the burden of proof could be the first step.

Geisinger Health, Geisinger Health System Foundation and Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center, collectively a Pennsylvania health care system, will pay $450,000 and provide other equitable relief ...

In addition, the health care system must submit semiannual reports regarding employees who were terminated after taking leave.

According to the United States Department of Labor (DOL), 22.7% of People with Disabilities (PWDs) are employed, compared to 65.6% of non-disabled people. As a result, PWDs are 2X more likely than non ...

The district court granted summary judgment in favor of New York City on a claim by a former New York City Department of Social Services (DSS) employee who alleged discrimination under the ...

Court finds sufficient evidence for national origin bias and retaliation but dismisses parts of disability claim Brooklyn, NY – A federal judge in the Eastern District of New York has ruled that a ...

MOUNT PLEASANT, Wisc. (KNWA/KFTA) — The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has accused Walmart of disability discrimination in a lawsuit filed last month in Wisconsin. The EEOC said in a ...

(WHTM)– Geisinger Health entities will pay $450,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Pennsylvania-based Geisinger Health, ...

Disability-based discrimination was reported by 12.4% of medical students with disabilities in the US, with the highest rates being reported by those with chronic illnesses and multiple disabilities.

The Geisinger Health System has agreed to pay $450,000 to settle a federal disability discrimination lawsuit alleging it violated the law by forcing disabled employees to compete for their own ...